单词	whangai
释义	whangai /ˈfɑːŋʌɪ / noun [mass noun] NZ 1(In Maori culture) adoption of a child within an extended family: the rules for whangai varied between tribes [as modifier]: one of the big debates over several generations has been about whangai children... The issue with regard to whangai is very important to Maori. In respect of whangai, without a legal adoption there is still room for the tikanga of a particular tribe to apply. The Native Health Act of 1909 meant that Maori women could no longer breast feed, nor use whangai systems to adopt children. 1.1 [count noun] (plural same) A child who has been adopted within an extended family: Timoti was a whangai and a very spoilt one at that... The play looks at the stresses caused by having different degrees of fluency in Maori, as the children, students and whangai of a Maori educator gather at his tangi. Is that definition limited strictly to whangai who are descended by blood from their original family? I have never ever heard of a neglected whangai. Origin Maori.
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